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[–] milch 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

In your analogy, having more baristas would still result in not having a line, the baristas would just be terribly inefficient. There's technologies like Amazon Web Services, where you don't have to rent all the servers right away: Auto Scaling will just start up more servers for you as traffic becomes higher (i.e. your coffee shop owner calls in more baristas to work and sends them home again when all customers have their coffee). That way you only have to pay for what you actually use (with a little overhead, of course) and don't have to rent out huge servers upfront.

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[–] Mooch ago 

Great point, thanks for the example!